Code Quality Contracts in the North of England

Code Quality (Software Quality)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Code Quality skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Code Quality over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 110 182 229
Rank change year-on-year +72 +47 -59
Contract jobs citing Code Quality 75 20 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.55% 0.37% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.85% 0.41% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 14 14
10th Percentile £361 £253 £426
25th Percentile £409 £425 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £556 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.61% +11.25% +13.64%
75th Percentile £575 £608 £675
90th Percentile - £646 £684
England median daily rate £532 £576 £563
% change year-on-year -7.77% +2.44% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £67.90 - -
25th Percentile £68.50 - -
Median hourly rate £72.00 - -
75th Percentile £78.50 - -
90th Percentile £80.90 - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £52.50 £45.20
% change year-on-year +33.33% +16.15% -1.74%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Code Quality falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,055 4,902 6,324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 83.69% 90.08% 88.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,411 3,372 4,591
10th Percentile £300 £300 £241
25th Percentile £400 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £669 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 395 209 251
10th Percentile £11.09 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.55 £15.75 £13.57
Median hourly rate £21.00 £25.00 £19.09
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +30.96% +7.43%
75th Percentile £46.18 £43.39 £34.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £56.38 £63.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

Code Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Code Quality as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Code Quality in the North of England

Code Quality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Code Quality in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Code Quality in the North of England

Code Quality
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Code Quality in the North of England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Code Quality in the North of England

Code Quality
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Code Quality in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Code Quality in the North of England

Code Quality
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Code Quality within the North of England region over the 6 months to 12 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West +38 37 £500 -13.04% 23
Yorkshire +32 24 £469 +1.30% 9
North East - 14 - - 9
Code Quality
England

Code Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 61 (81.33%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 8 (10.67%) AWS
2 4 (5.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 4 (5.33%) Serverless
3 3 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (4.00%) Amazon ELB
3 3 (4.00%) Amazon S3
3 3 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (4.00%) Snowflake
4 1 (1.33%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (1.33%) Azure
4 1 (1.33%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.33%) Firebase
4 1 (1.33%) SAP Fieldglass
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.33%) MySQL
2 3 (4.00%) Data Lake
2 3 (4.00%) DynamoDB
2 3 (4.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.33%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.33%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (6.67%) Git
2 4 (5.33%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.33%) Crashlytics
3 1 (1.33%) GitLab
3 1 (1.33%) Gradle
General
1 5 (6.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (5.33%) Retail
3 2 (2.67%) Finance
4 1 (1.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.33%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 67 (89.33%) Developer
2 61 (81.33%) Software Developer
3 4 (5.33%) Software Engineer
4 3 (4.00%) Site Engineer
4 3 (4.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (1.33%) .NET Software Engineer
5 1 (1.33%) Android Developer
5 1 (1.33%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (1.33%) Flutter Developer
5 1 (1.33%) Java Developer
5 1 (1.33%) Java Engineer
5 1 (1.33%) Java Software Engineer
5 1 (1.33%) Lead
5 1 (1.33%) Lead Developer
5 1 (1.33%) Python Developer
5 1 (1.33%) Senior
5 1 (1.33%) Senior Android Developer
5 1 (1.33%) Senior Developer
5 1 (1.33%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (81.33%) HTML
2 4 (5.33%) Spring
2 4 (5.33%) Spring Boot
3 3 (4.00%) AWS CDK
3 3 (4.00%) Node.js
3 3 (4.00%) React
3 3 (4.00%) RESTful
4 1 (1.33%) .NET
4 1 (1.33%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.33%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.33%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.33%) AWS SAM
4 1 (1.33%) Dagger
4 1 (1.33%) Java EE
4 1 (1.33%) Jest
4 1 (1.33%) Jetpack Compose
4 1 (1.33%) JSON
4 1 (1.33%) Kafka
4 1 (1.33%) Lambda Expressions
4 1 (1.33%) Serverless Framework
Miscellaneous
1 1 (1.33%) Device Driver
1 1 (1.33%) Embedded Systems
1 1 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (1.33%) Mobile App
1 1 (1.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.67%) Android
2 1 (1.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (89.33%) Software Engineering
2 61 (81.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 61 (81.33%) Conversational UI
3 6 (8.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (8.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (8.00%) Test Automation
4 5 (6.67%) Agile
4 5 (6.67%) CI/CD
4 5 (6.67%) Containerisation
4 5 (6.67%) Design Patterns
5 4 (5.33%) DevOps
5 4 (5.33%) SDLC
6 3 (4.00%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (4.00%) E-Commerce
6 3 (4.00%) Microservices
6 3 (4.00%) Pair Programming
6 3 (4.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 2 (2.67%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (2.67%) Refactoring
7 2 (2.67%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 65 (86.67%) Python
2 64 (85.33%) SQL
3 62 (82.67%) C#
3 62 (82.67%) JavaScript
4 6 (8.00%) Java
5 3 (4.00%) Bash
5 3 (4.00%) Go
5 3 (4.00%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.33%) Dart
6 1 (1.33%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 62 (82.67%) Degree
2 1 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.33%) QA
2 3 (4.00%) ISO 22301
2 3 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.33%) HL7
System Software
1 3 (4.00%) Docker
2 1 (1.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (6.67%) Terraform
2 4 (5.33%) Kubernetes
3 3 (4.00%) Ansible
3 3 (4.00%) HP Fortify
4 1 (1.33%) Grafana
Vendors
1 61 (81.33%) PayPal
2 3 (4.00%) Salesforce
2 3 (4.00%) Splunk